Cristina Ballester Major: Interior Design, Pre-med I am tech challenged, but here to learn! I love technology even if I'm terrible using it. Art: I love artsy things and hope to learn more. fun fact.. In love with the ocean and sailboats. (completely obsessed)
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I liked the article because it made me realize how lucky we are to already have all these technological advances available to the regular public. I was always told by my parents how when they were my age, they had to spend a lot of time in a library and actually researching and reading many many books to aquire some simple information. I was born in a time wherew if you wanted to know something, or do research, you only had to open the laptop and search onngoogle! After reading about this Velvet, I got much more interested in these software and got a whole new view to it. I also liked how he created a timeline with the creation of movies. The way he explained it was really well and completely captured my attention. Specially since he referred to films like Starwars, which I know.
The counter monuments that are popular in modern times are, in my opinion, both wrong and awesome. It's really interesting that artists now want the people to interact with their art and also not have the meaning of the monument to be so straight-forward. However, I think that the traditional monuments are good too because it's an artistic way of recording something important that happened in history and for future generations to remember it. Counter- monuments are not meant to record something for posterity, but for the present generation to reflect on something that happened during their time or close to their time and that they are against. For example, the memorial to the Jews of Europe that were murdered, there are tomb like boxes made of concrete; nothing hints to the people, aside from brochures and the museum underground, that this is a memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, and so when future generations go to the site, if they don't have something to explain what it is meant for, it's meaning will be forgotten.
Some monuments around the world:
Taj Mahal- India
Tower of Pisa-Italy
El Totem- Puerto Rico
Could-be monuments:
This is the wall that people decorated in front of the World Trade Center cite after the towers fell. This could be a monument because it is a symbol of suffering and coming together of one nation after a tragic time.
Wind-mills: They represent our efforts to stop using things that are harmful to nature. This is part of our generation and our struggle to stop harming our home, Earth.
El Perro- San Juan: This is from a Puerto Rican legend that the dog's master goes off to war and the dog stays waiting for him at the dock, but the man dies sea and never returns. The dog stays put waiting for it's owner for eternity, turning into stone. Its a symbol for unconditional love.
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Cristina Ballester
Major: Interior Design, Pre-med
I am tech challenged, but here to learn! I love technology even if I'm terrible using it.
Art: I love artsy things and hope to learn more.
fun fact.. In love with the ocean and sailboats. (completely obsessed)
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Response article:
I liked the article because it made me realize how lucky we are to already have all these technological advances available to the regular public. I was always told by my parents how when they were my age, they had to spend a lot of time in a library and actually researching and reading many many books to aquire some simple information. I was born in a time wherew if you wanted to know something, or do research, you only had to open the laptop and search onngoogle! After reading about this Velvet, I got much more interested in these software and got a whole new view to it. I also liked how he created a timeline with the creation of movies. The way he explained it was really well and completely captured my attention. Specially since he referred to films like Starwars, which I know.
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The counter monuments that are popular in modern times are, in my opinion, both wrong and awesome. It's really interesting that artists now want the people to interact with their art and also not have the meaning of the monument to be so straight-forward. However, I think that the traditional monuments are good too because it's an artistic way of recording something important that happened in history and for future generations to remember it. Counter- monuments are not meant to record something for posterity, but for the present generation to reflect on something that happened during their time or close to their time and that they are against. For example, the memorial to the Jews of Europe that were murdered, there are tomb like boxes made of concrete; nothing hints to the people, aside from brochures and the museum underground, that this is a memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, and so when future generations go to the site, if they don't have something to explain what it is meant for, it's meaning will be forgotten.
Some monuments around the world:
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